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15(1):13-27 (2004)     Crit Rev Oral Biol Med
© 2004 International and American Associations for Dental Research

CELLS AND EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES OF DENTIN AND PULP: A BIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR REPAIR AND TISSUE ENGINEERING

Michel Goldberg*

Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, Université Paris V-René Descartes, Groupe Matrices Extracellulaires et biominéralisations (EA 2496), 1, rue Maurice Arnoux, 92120 Montrouge, France;

Anthony J. Smith

University of Birmingham, School of Dentistry, St Chad’s Queensway, Birmingham B4 6NN, UK

* corresponding author, mgoldod{at}aol.com

Odontoblasts produce most of the extracellular matrix (ECM) components found in dentin and implicated in dentin mineralization. Major differences in the pulp ECM explain why pulp is normally a non-mineralized tissue. In vitro or in vivo, some dentin ECM molecules act as crystal nucleators and contribute to crystal growth, whereas others are mineralization inhibitors. After treatment of caries lesions of moderate progression, odontoblasts and cells from the sub-odontoblastic Höhl’s layer are implicated in the formation of reactionary dentin. Healing of deeper lesions in contact with the pulp results in the formation of reparative dentin by pulp cells. The response to direct pulp-capping with materials such as calcium hydroxide is the formation of a dentinal bridge, resulting from the recruitment and proliferation of undifferentiated cells, which may be either stem cells or dedifferentiated and transdifferentiated mature cells. Once differentiated, the cells synthesize a matrix that undergoes mineralization. Animal models have been used to test the capacity of potentially bioactive molecules to promote pulp repair following their implantation into the pulp. ECM molecules induce either the formation of dentinal bridges or large areas of mineralization in the coronal pulp. They may also stimulate the total closure of the pulp in the root canal. In conclusion, some molecules found in dentin extracellular matrix may have potential in dental therapy as bioactive agents for pulp repair or tissue engineering.

Key words. Dentin, pulp, odontoblasts, bioactive molecules, tissue engineering




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